sensible design as in...
the Nokia Lumia 800....
doesn't that one have a built in battery too??
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the wife saw an ad for the Galaxy S phone, she asked me if this was an iPod.
Now, ok, she is not as technically aware as myself, but if Sammy can 'fool' enough people with their look-a -like phones, tablets etc then perhaps Apple has a case to argue here.
It's all in the marketing.
"Just sue the fuck out of Google instead of making better products"
think a lot of folk/users would contend that....
MP3 player....much better product than the others
Smartphone....probably reinvented the category, slipping on some features, but still a good product
MacBook Air....upset the applecart on lightweight, fast, notebooks, so much so Intel is giving the OEM's all the help they can to stay in the game, read Ultrabook
Apple has been the underdog for so many years, up to around the turn of the millennia.
I think this engendered a very specific culture within the company and squirrelling away cash being one of them.
It's the 'rainy day' concept.
But I think this has more to do with SJ than anyone else. Given SJ will have to move on (or up..) one day, I think come that time the culture will start to change.
The cash pile will be utilised one way or another.
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/22/apple-laptops-vulnerable-to-hack-that-kills-or-corrupts-batteries/
I would say that other vendors using similar batteries will have a similar issue as Apple. Miller is a Mac security expert and only looks at Mac. The fact that he is the first to discover it, indicates how obscure this attack is. However, I am certain that Apple and others will produce at update to create a random password.
I am certain Mr Miller had direct access via Terminal to do this hack.
So long as Mac users run their main account as Standard and not Admin, intelligent users are well protected, plus if the upgrade to Lion they will be even more protected.
Karma...wot goes around...comes around
But I believe you are correct, slowly, slowly the 'old order' is crumbling, it happens.....
Check Roman Empire
Check USA Imperialism
Check GB Imperialism
Check Old Style Capitalism??
Moi? I love it, can't get enough of change, change, change...
OK, let's get this straight, once and for all.
Apple had no issue with paying for a Nokia license on FRAND terms, it's just that Nokia wanted more than FRAND and they wanted cross-licensing. This was all stated and up front from the beginning. So the battle began with each side throwing bigger and bigger stones. For all us plebs know, Nokia did finally agree to FRAND terms and didn't get any cross-license deal. There would have a been a back-payment for unpaid dues and maybe a one-off to get rid of Nokia's other claims.
So probably a win-win for both sides.
Why the guy left, could be due to Samsung's recent complaint that some of the legal people Apple are using have past associations with Samsung.
On another matter, I find it amusing HTC should complain of 'Apple not competing fairly' just recently when one by one the Android makers are coughing up royalties to MS. Of course, the MS patents are court proven patents and quite possibly Apple is using HTC to prove their patents.
there you are parked up in nice Ikea's multi-floor, mega carpark and you forget where you parked the new motor....so does GPS work through x meters of concrete & steel?
I guess it will guide you to the last known GPS position.....at the entrance.
Or is it much, much smarter than this and can calculate all the left and right turns you made to get to your parking spot.
Mr Cameron should just listen to his electorate and stand up to NI/Murdoch, demand a root & branch clear out of NOTW.
Clearly they have a bad, nasty culture growing in the AC vents, infecting all.
Mr Cameron would be surprised how his rating would increase if he just actually DID something about this cancer.
I recently bought a GF2 with a zoom and pancake. So far very impressed with the IQ in RAW, the in camera processing lets down the JPEG's. But it's quick to shoot with, not quite as fast as a mid-price DSLR, but fast enough to get most candid shots.
Not so impressed with the touch screen, it may not appeal to some people. For them perhaps the ELP2 for Oly is a better choice. At least that's the feelings of Thom Hogan who is a big Nikon fan and uses the Oly as well.
The Oly has a better electronic viewfinder.
read the article on the Beeb website, where this kid was interviewed about his app. He actually admits he didn't think it would get accepted, because he knew he was stepping in areas that were not approved by Apple. Then he goes ahead and submits it, of course it gets refused....
The icon? I believe the kid's icon is a mash up of two of Apple's icons, sufficiently different to not attract a nasty legal letter. Apple already had the sync icon and the wifi icon, put the two together and you have wifi sync. The Apple icon uses a precise combination of their current icon set.
more space can be bought from Apple. So I guess my 25GB of space (of which I use only 15) will probably cost me an extra $20?? That's a lot less than $99 for my last renewal. Personally, I am all for this iCloud, I don't make heavy use of Mobile Me, just Mail, shared documents and iWeb, plus some storage for my customers.
is so simple, open system prefs, click on accounts and see if your account is standard or admin.
next step...if admin, create a new account called...ummm....admin...with a nice strong password
next step...logout and log back in as admin
next step...go to system prefs, open accounts, select you personal user account and un-tick 'administer this computer'
next step...log out, log back in as main user account
use & enjoy
just don't lose that super strong password, you will need it from time to time to install any software upgrades.
of course, some idgit will still manage to install some trojan or malware, but then as Einstein said once "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”
surely, if the patents are US, then if the dev sets up in the EU, they cannot be touched. Maybe not possible for al, but for some maybe?
Licensing a patent does not necessarily legitimise the patent.
Read Foss Patents for better coverage of this and another despicable patent troll.
I think airline pilots do 'real work', so now airlines are trailing iPads in cockpit and the pilots love them. It's not a 6lb laptop, with dual core CPU's etc, but it does help them with their real work. Same goes for doctors, lawyers etc.
The tablet is such an interesting market, it clearly is not all things to all people, but it can be some things to some people. I guess in some ways it's an extension to the laptop/desktop computer, but with extreme portability and excellent battery life thrown in.
Most broadcasters use 1440x1080 for transmission which is an anamorphic version of 1920x1080. That means it is 16x9 squashed to roughly 4:3 and then expanded again(similar to what they do to films on DVD). The scalers in settop boxes will do the conversion back to 1920 so the viewer never actually sees 1440. They do this because the slight drop in horizontal resolution (almost invisible to viewers on all but the largest displays at sensible viewing distances), saves some bitrate which in turn makes the MPEG compression easier (hence less coding artefacts). This is not a BBC only thing, almost everyone does it because it makes the pictures at broadcast bitrates look better!
As for overscan, the 16x9 picture, which is now 1920 scaled from 1440, is completely overscanned on most TVs which means that even broadcasting 1920 and receiving on a 1920 display doesn't always give you pixel mapping, and you never see pixel mapped 1440 as that would be the wrong aspect ratio so everyone would look short and fat!
from my ATI 3870 to the ATI 6870 and not a Mac specific card either, an ASUS branded card. Seems Apple gave us MP users some nice 6xxx drivers to play with.
Then next one is to upgrade the 2nd optical bay to hold an SSD & 3.5'HD.
I'd also disagree with the internal build quality of other Apple lines. I have a laptop, replaced the HD for an SSD. Inside it looks amazing, not a single inch of wasted space. Compared to my very old Pismo, it's a work of art :)
Ummmm....my MacPro is over 3 years old, it's still churning out NTSC to PAL conversions most days of the week. It's been seriously upgraded in RAM, storage & gfx.
IMO it's an amazing piece of engineering, if anything it's over-engineered.
Yes it cost more than other computers, but I figure it has about another 2 years working life, then it goes on Ebay and I'll probably reap 50% of it's purchase price.
So yes, Apple does great marketing but they also do great engineering.
The total number of iOS devices sold which are all 'hand-held computing devices'. Have a look at the Samsung filing, ~180 million iOS devices so far.
Second, this market segment of tablets that Apple has taken by storm, is not going to be such a push-over as the phone market.
Just asking, what would the Android share be really, if they weren't almost given away? Will the tablet market follow the same formula? Doesn't the cheap Android phone depend greatly on the carrier subsidy? What if folk aren't interested in having a data plan? That means the cost of the tablet will have to reflect the true cost of parts, R&D etc.
I'd still like to see HP come out with their WebOS tablet.